Cricket Heading Back
To the Olympics?

The Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the most authoritative voices in cricket, came out in support of putting forward the Twenty20 brand of the game as a candidate for inclusion in the 2024 Olympic Games. The club's world cricket council said in a statement Wednesday that it believed the shorter format would be perfect for increasing cricket's exposure at the Games. "The committee accepts that, were cricket to be played in the Olympics, there would be a short-term loss in income for the [International Cricket Council], and...